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Word: encomium (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • literature A genre of literature that included five elements: prologue, birth and upbringing, acts of the person's life, comparisons used to praise the subject, and an epilogue.
  • rhetoric A general category of oratory.
  • rhetoric A method within rhetorical pedagogy.
  • The eighth exercise in the progymnasmata series.
  • Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such praise; a tribute.

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